What countries have male population with high blood pressure?

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High blood pressure is a serious medical problem which can also become fatal if precautions are not taken. High blood pressure may be due to a number of factors such as obesity, smoking, lack of physical activity, more than required salt in diet, stress, old age, hereditary reasons etc. However, blood pressure has no symptoms. Many people are actually unaware that they have high blood pressure. However, high blood pressure is detrimental to health and may lead to heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular issues.

Unfortunately, the past few years have witnessed an increase in the percentage of people suffering from high blood pressure. However, the incidence of blood pressure among people varies from country to country. While in some, a huge population may have high blood pressure, in others the percentage may be low.

According to a World Health Organization data regarding high blood pressure among males, Croatia was the most affected nation. In 2015, the percentage of males aged 18 and above having high blood pressure stood at 38.4 percent in Croatia. Latvia was the second most affected nation with 36.4 percent of the males aged 18 and above having high blood pressure. In both Hungary and Lithuania, 36.1 percent males had high blood pressure, while in Slovenia it was 35.8 percent.

Nations where between 30 to 35 percent of the males aged 18 and above had high blood pressure were Russia, Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Mongolia, Pakistan, Niger, among others. Countries such as Nepal, India, Kenya, Iceland, Uzbekistan, Cambodia, Uganda, Brazil, Morocco, Ethiopia, etc also had significant number of males suffering from high blood pressure. The percentage of males suffering from high blood pressure in these nations ranged between 25 and 30.

Meanwhile, there were some nations which were better of than the ones mentioned above but still had a high percentage of men aged 18 and above suffering from high blood pressure. Countries which has less than 20 percent of men having high blood pressure were Ecuador, Bolivia, New Zealand, North Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Peru, Canada, the United States, and South Korea. Among these South Korea stood at the bottom of the table with 13.8 percent of the males aged 18 and above having high blood pressure.

The table below provides information on the percentage of men aged 18 and above having high blood pressure in each nation.

Countries	BMI (kg/m²)
Nauru	32.5
Cook Islands	32.3
Niue	32.3
Tonga	31.9
Samoa	31.7
Kuwait	30
Saint Kitts and Nevis	29.7
Kiribati	29.6
Saint Lucia	29.6
Micronesia (Federated States of)	29.4
Palau	29.4
Tuvalu	29.3
Egypt	29.2
Marshall Islands	29.2
Qatar	29.2
United Arab Emirates	29
Belize	28.9
Jordan	28.9
Bahamas	28.8
United States of America	28.8
Barbados	28.7
Trinidad and Tobago	28.7
Saudi Arabia	28.5
Antigua and Barbuda	28.4
Libya	28.4
Bahrain	28.2
Mexico	28.1
Syrian Arab Republic	28.1
Iraq	28
New Zealand	27.9
Chile	27.8
Lebanon	27.8
Turkey	27.8
Argentina	27.7
Andorra	27.5
Ireland	27.5
Azerbaijan	27.4
El Salvador	27.4
Jamaica	27.4
Kazakhstan	27.4
Suriname	27.4
Greece	27.3
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	27.3
South Africa	27.3
United Kingdom	27.3
Australia	27.2
Canada	27.2
Fiji	27.2
Georgia	27.2
Malta	27.2
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	27.2
Panama	27.1
Cyprus	27
Dominica	27
Ecuador	27
Grenada	27
Costa Rica	26.9
Czech Republic	26.9
Nicaragua	26.9
Oman	26.9
Slovenia	26.9
Seychelles	26.8
Tunisia	26.8
Uruguay	26.8
Armenia	26.7
Dominican Republic	26.7
Republic of Moldova	26.7
Spain	26.7
Belarus	26.6
Lithuania	26.6
Guatemala	26.5
Luxembourg	26.5
Russian Federation	26.5
Slovakia	26.5
Swaziland	26.5
Honduras	26.4
Poland	26.4
Turkmenistan	26.4
Germany	26.3
Guyana	26.3
Hungary	26.3
Israel	26.3
Peru	26.3
Algeria	26.2
Brunei Darussalam	26.2
Cuba	26.2
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	26.2
Kyrgyzstan	26.2
Portugal	26.2
Vanuatu	26.2
Albania	26.1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	26.1
Uzbekistan	26.1
Bulgaria	26
Italy	26
Mongolia	26
Montenegro	26
Norway	26
Ukraine	26
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	25.9
Brazil	25.9
Colombia	25.9
Finland	25.9
Iceland	25.9
Latvia	25.8
Paraguay	25.8
Serbia	25.8
Sweden	25.8
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	25.8
Yemen	25.8
Equatorial Guinea	25.6
Mauritius	25.6
Morocco	25.6
Belgium	25.5
Croatia	25.5
Estonia	25.5
Gabon	25.5
Solomon Islands	25.5
Austria	25.4
Netherlands	25.4
Tajikistan	25.4
Denmark	25.3
France	25.3
Malaysia	25.3
Papua New Guinea	25.3
Romania	25.3
Switzerland	25.3
South Sudan	25.2
Sudan	25.2
Maldives	25.1
Lesotho	24.9
Mauritania	24.8
Sao Tome and Principe	24.8
Botswana	24.7
Cabo Verde	24.7
Cameroon	24.4
Namibia	24.3
Ghana	24.2
Angola	24.1
Comoros	24.1
Haiti	24.1
Thailand	24.1
Gambia	24
Liberia	24
China	23.9
Republic of Korea	23.9
Bhutan	23.8
Pakistan	23.8
Singapore	23.7
Côte d’Ivoire	23.6
Benin	23.4
Nigeria	23.4
Zimbabwe	23.4
Congo	23.3
Djibouti	23.3
Philippines	23.2
Togo	23.2
Guinea-Bissau	23.1
United Republic of Tanzania	23.1
Kenya	23
Senegal	23
Sri Lanka	23
Indonesia	22.9
Malawi	22.8
Mali	22.8
Sierra Leone	22.8
Guinea	22.7
Japan	22.6
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	22.6
Myanmar	22.6
Zambia	22.6
Central African Republic	22.4
Chad	22.3
Mozambique	22.3
Democratic Republic of the Congo	22.2
Nepal	22.2
Burkina Faso	22.1
Rwanda	22
Uganda	22
Cambodia	21.9
India	21.9
Somalia	21.9
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	21.8
Niger	21.7
Afghanistan	21.6
Vietnam	21.6
Timor-Leste	21.2
Madagascar	21.1
Bangladesh	21
Burundi	20.9
Ethiopia	20.6
Eritrea	20.5

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